Show off your Hurricane 550 pictures here!

[kahn10]

:noteworthy:rolling:rolling:rolling:rolling:rollin g:rolling

[Crashed Monkey]

:oops::oops::oops::oops::cheers

[JaggedEdge]

Wow what a concept.. a bathtub battleship.. I want the aircraft carrier! :Bang

[BL]

These are all Hurri, but just only one with original canopy.:smokin::thumbup::YeaBaby:

[xodarap1]

The blue looks sharp. What canopies are they?

[BL]

The blue looks sharp. What canopies are they?

Hamaki Trex 600, need to do little mod to fit on hurri.

[mysticmead]

any chance of some pics showing the mod needed to mount the trex 600 canopy?

[xodarap1]

It would be nice to run larger canopies. My only fear would be the canopy moving up a bit and being caught by the flybar during hard flight. BL, any problem so far with the flybars hitting the larger canopy while doing snap pushouts or other maneuvers?

[BL]

Sorry for the bad quality photo taken from my cell phone.

I make used of a body frame of Esky FP and epoxied the original canopy hock onto it as shown in the photo.

As the canopy is a bit wider than the hurri canopy, the trex600 canopy mounting rod is used. Make sure is trex600 ep, not the nitro. The nitro is a bit shorter.

It has no problem for the flybar, has tested with full cyclic flip.

If you want to see how is the effect with bigger canopy, here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftoiXpxIuMw

[mjdee14]

I finally got the cf Z30 put together and took it out for it's maiden voyage on the 4th....flew real nice....

here are a couple of pictures....flew really well but I still have some tweaking to do....

Mike

[kahn10]

:clappp :YeaBaby: :thumbup:

[xodarap1]

Thanks BL. The pictures were fine and they helped me understand what you did to lower the canopy enough so it wouldn't be in flybar range.

Mike, nice pics.. looks good!

[bpd964]

Guess I can show mine after giving her a nice bath.. Got caught in the rain today but everything worked out..

[kahn10]

:roll: shhhhh someone will tell bob. joke. but reckon reevaluate couldn't hurt.....:)

[Wazzer]

I finally got the cf Z30 put together and took it out for it's maiden voyage on the 4th....flew real nice....

here are a couple of pictures....flew really well but I still have some tweaking to do....

Mike

Hey Mike Congrats

Always nice when you have a Maiden flight and all goes well.

How do you like the Z30 so far?

I was hoping to maiden my hurricane this weekend after a massive overhaul and upgrades
but the seems to be a conspiracy to keep me too busy to get some air time!!

Ben

[Jungle Bob]

Me too Ben,. sooooo wanna fly, what is it with all this social life, work hard all week and then get so busy with parties, weddings, meetings and eating that no time to do anything, v frustrating! Taking birds to Kudat next week to try and get some after work flying done, if not too tired, keep finding small bits of red and white wooden splinters at the bungalow, any ideas ha ha?

[Wazzer]

keep finding small bits of red and white wooden splinters at the bungalow, any ideas ha ha?

very funny

[mjdee14]

How do you like the Z30 so far?

Ben

I didn't fly it enough to really ring it out....my first impression was "was it worth it" vs the Z20 ? There was a lot of comotion going on and I was not really able to concentrate and listen to the differences in the motors...I haveit geared with the 13t pinion, 50t fisrt.20t OWB and 61t main....so it should be about the same as the Z20 ship.....I think it doesn't bog like the Z20 and a little faster fwd speed and definately faster climb rate.

I think I'm going to like it...and it was fun to fly each heli......the Z30 does feel solid as a rock.....andI have a little tail wag on the Z20 that I almost wonder if it's the ESC....because there is a definate change in RPM's. I also changed to non gov to see if it will help.

Mike D

[michael88997]

i love my z30 on the plastic frame :) so much power, but i got a new heli commin in this week so now i have to share my time with the hurricanes little bro

[Crashed Monkey]

Cant afford a pro job on the canopy so did it myself.

[mysticmead]

very nice!! is the paint really still wet or did you clear coat it with a high gloss clear? if you used gloss paint or high gloss clear.. go get a can of flat clear and dull it up a it. that'll keep it more along the line of a military paint job.

now... remember, the purpose of a flat military paint job is to make it harder to see..

[Crashed Monkey]

very nice!! is the paint really still wet or did you clear coat it with a high gloss clear? if you used gloss paint or high gloss clear.. go get a can of flat clear and dull it up a it. that'll keep it more along the line of a military paint job.

now... remember, the purpose of a flat military paint job is to make it harder to see..
Thanks Mystic, no the clear coat is dry,I sprayed it with satin varnish,but It did look like I was trying to hide it .So six coats of clear was in order.

[Crashed Monkey]

For once it didn't rain ,blow or snow! Wales sucks for weather.Its July and its still cold except for today. P.S. I keep landing on my tail fin ......:mad:

[Aussie_G]

I finally finished my build (well they are never really finished)

550 Plastic Kit
Spektrum DS821's
Align 75A ESC
Tonic-X Z20a-980
Logitech 2100t
Align BEC & lipo RX pack

Only parts I have added so far are the 600 head button, Custom Heli carbon servo wheels and the carbon stabilizers.

I have yet to install the 600 landing gear & the carbon battery trays.

[Mikej]

CM,

I love your house - excellent sized garden :thumbup:

Cheers,
Mike.